Pre-exposure follow-up — by Bruce Robbins on April 27, 2015

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Being an inquisitive sort, I went on to Google+ and the Analogue Photography Users Group and posed much the same question on the topic of Br...

Barnbaum v Thornton: who's right? — by Bruce Robbins on April 24, 2015

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Pre-flashing or pre-exposing a negative to improve shadow detail in contrasty scenes was a technique advocated by the late Barry Thornton in...

Fair Witness tops the charts — by Bruce Robbins on April 23, 2015

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Congratulations to David Keenan whose new black and white photography book, Fair Witness, is the best seller in its category on the Amazon w...

Firstcall now stocking Bergger paper — by Bruce Robbins on April 22, 2015

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Firstcall Photographic's spring/summer catalogue arrived in the post the other day with the usual sprinkling of film and darkroom goodie...

The LEICA Diaries - Part Eight — by Bruce Robbins on April 20, 2015

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The Leica experiment goes on and I'm continuing to enjoy working with the M2, almost exclusively, it has to be said, with the 50mm Summi...

Erwin Puts' old articles available again — by Bruce Robbins on April 16, 2015

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Many readers will be aware of Leica afficionado Erwin Puts and I'm sure you'll have your opinions about him both pro and con. Erwin ...

Dreams of Freelancing — by Bruce Robbins on April 13, 2015

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Many moons ago I had a hankering to be a freelance photojournalist. I must have been about 17 at the time and was just falling in love with ...

Adox CMS 20 - adventures in development Part Two — by Bruce Robbins on April 10, 2015

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This is Part Two of Scotty Elmslie's experiments to find a conventional developer capable of producing good results with Adox CMS 20 II ...

Adox CMS 20 II - adventures in development — by Bruce Robbins on April 08, 2015

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Hands up now. How many of us would use document-type films if we could guarantee consistent results? I suspect the proportion might be quite...